Ultimate boot CD - diagnostic, testing, and recovery utilities collection
21st December 2007
Today, using memtest86, system speed test, hddspeed and some other DOS utilities for diagnosing and testing PC hardware, I decided to put together my own simple bootable utility CD disk. But first, I did some searching to find if something similar exists.
It does exist - Ultimate boot CD. That CD has numerous freeware testing and diagnosing utilities which will help you - if you are up to some good old (read “small fast”) DOS utilities. And not that old, actually - modern hardware is supported.
The only modification I’ll do to the Ultimate boot CD will be adding freeware Biew bin/hex viewer/editor. Surely, more utils to come - with original size of just 115MB, there’s plenty of room to add extensions. You can even extend the CD image with non-free software, like Partition Magic.
P.S. To diagnose and fix software problems - have a look at System Rescue CD.
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